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The Bulldozer in the Countryside Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Studies in Environment and History)

Adam Rome

The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War II--the mass migration to the suburbs...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was praised as a great book that situates U.S. environmentalism as a reaction to urban core and suburbanization, highlighting suburban concerns.

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Then there's Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome. It's another really great book about environmentalism and really situates environmentalism in the United States as coming up as a reaction to th...

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It was praised as a great book that situates U.S. environmentalism as a reaction to urban core and suburbanization, highlighting suburban concerns.

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Then there's Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome. It's another really great book about environmentalism and really situates environmentalism in the United States as coming up as a reaction to the urban core and suburbanization, that that is really the catalyzing force for how it gets so many adherents is that suburbanites really get concerned about the change in their communities.

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